| Hancock, Patriots send skidding Wildcats home |
Fri Mar 18 16:50:28 2011 EST |
| Cleveland, OH (Sports Network) - Luke Hancock made a three-pointer with 19.8 seconds remaining, as the George Mason Patriots used a late surge to take down the Villanova Wildcats, 61-57, in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Hancock ended with 18 points and five assists for the Patriots (27-6), who are remembered for their historic trip to the Final Four in 2006. George Mason beat Michigan State, North Carolina, Wichita State and Connecticut in the tourney that season. Mike Morrison added |
| East Regional action has Villanova tangling with George Mason |
Fri Mar 18 10:46:19 2011 EST |
| Cleveland, OH (Sports Network) - In what figures to be one of the most competitive games of the NCAA Tournament's second round, the eighth-seeded George Mason Patriots will battle the ninth-seeded Villanova Wildcats this afternoon. Up next for the winner of this East Regional tilt is a third-round matchup with either top-seeded Ohio State or 16th-seeded Texas-San Antonio on Sunday. The Wildcats are making their 32nd NCAA Tournament appearance, and they won the national title back in 1985. They |
| 2011 Big East Conference Tournament Preview |
Tue Mar 8 09:17:53 2011 EST |
| ng for Rutgers with his 14.2 ppg, there's simply not enough support there to get the team beyond Wednesday even if they figure out how to advance. Game three of the first round pits the 15th-seeded South Florida Bulls versus the 10th-seeded Villanova Wildcats. The Bulls are a team that took nationally- ranked BYU to overtime early in the season before losing, but then just days later bowed to Florida Atlantic (50-42), so try and figure that one out. Aside from a pair of wins over lowly DePaul, U |
| Pitt downs Villanova to capture Big East title |
Sat Mar 5 19:09:49 2011 EST |
| Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) - Ashton Gibbs scored 18 points as the fourth- ranked Pittsburgh Panthers won the Big East regular season title outright with a 60-50 victory over the 19th-ranked Villanova Wildcats. Nasir Robinson, Gilbert Brown and Travon Woodall each tallied nine points for the Panthers (27-4, 15-3 Big East), who will be the No. 1 seed in the Big East tourney for just the third time in school history. Pittsburgh, which went 23-of-26 from the foul line, tied a school record for |
| Pitt seeks Big East crown against Villanova |
Sat Mar 5 10:55:42 2011 EST |
| Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) - Looking to recover from a season-long skid, the 19th-ranked Villanova Wildcats head to the Petersen Events Center for a Big East matchup with the fourth-ranked Pittsburgh Panthers, who will look to capture the league's outright regular season title. Villanova has lost three consecutive games, falling to Syracuse, 69-64, a surprising Saint John's squad, 81-68, and most recently, Notre Dame, 93-72. It hasn't necessarily been the setbacks themselves, but rather th |
| Villanova seek turnaround at Notre Dame |
Mon Feb 28 10:41:20 2011 EST |
| South Bend, IN (Sports Network) - The Villanova Wildcats have clearly fallen off track, and they clearly need an upset victory over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in tonight's crucial Big East Conference showdown to restore any lost confidence. It is hard to believe that Villanova has lost four of its last six games, including the last two, as the team looked like a legitimate national title contender in mid-January. Jay Wright's Wildcats have suffered back-to-back home losses after a 13-1 start |
| Big East heavyweights collide in Philly |
Mon Feb 21 10:39:42 2011 EST |
| Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - A couple of Big East Conference programs hoping to play just the required 40 minutes hit the hardwood at the Wells Fargo Center in south Philadelphia tonight, as the Villanova Wildcats entertain the Syracuse Orange. Up in the Carrier Dome, this matchup has played to record crowds the last couple of years and the Philadelphia version should have no trouble living up to the hype as both programs continue to jockey for position in the upper-half of the conferenc |
| No. 15 Villanova visits Land of Lincoln to battle DePaul |
Sat Feb 19 10:54:14 2011 EST |
| Rosemont, IL (Sports Network) - The 15th-ranked Villanova Wildcats have a chance to add another victory to their impressive resume' as they take on the DePaul Blue Demons in Big East Conference action. On Tuesday, Villanova managed to halt a two-game slide with a 60-57 victory over Seton Hall on the road. The Wildcats, who are now 6-3 in true road games, reached the 20-win plateau for the season (20-6). Unfortunately, they have fallen out of the race for the Big East regular season title, as th |
| Pirates seek upset of 15th-ranked Wildcats |
Tue Feb 15 10:38:41 2011 EST |
| Newark, NJ (Sports Network) - The suddenly slumping Villanova Wildcats need to get back on track, and they will attempt to avoid yet another upset tonight when they take on the Seton Hall Pirates in Big East Conference action from the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Villanova has lost its last two games and five of the last eight since opening the season with a 16-1 record. The Wildcats dropped to 7-5 in Big East action with a 57-54 loss to Pittsburgh on Saturday, seemingly crushing th |
| Big East showdown pits Panthers against Wildcats |
Sat Feb 12 10:56:44 2011 EST |
| Villanova, PA (Sports Network) - A top-10 showdown in the Big East Conference takes place in the Philadelphia suburbs on Saturday night, as the fourth- ranked Pittsburgh Panthers come calling on the ninth-ranked Villanova Wildcats. Pittsburgh is the class of the loaded Big East right now, sporting a 10-1 league ledger (matching its best-ever start to league play), which when coupled with its 22-2 overall record has the team mentioned in the same breath as the best in the country. The Panthers t |
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